Emmy Award goes to Tucker Center for “Media Coverage” documentary

emmystatuetteAt a gala awards ceremony on Saturday, September 13, the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport was presented with a 2014 Upper Midwest Emmy Award in the Sports Documentary category for its video “Media Coverage and Female Athletes,” an evidence-based research project co-produced with tptMN. The film is a groundbreaking documentary that uses research-based information to examine the amount and type of coverage given to female athletes.

Expert scholars and award-winning coaches and athletes discuss this timely issue from a variety of perspectives, as they help dispel the common—but untrue—myths that no one is interested in women’s sport and that “sex sells” women’s sport. The film can be viewed in its entirety here.